Alt+S Shortcut in Firefox

[Simon]

Oh and while I'm thinking about it, when you post on these forums, it says "alt + s" will post. That is only the case for IE now as they changed Firefox a few versions ago, so it no longer does that, which irritates me immensely!

There's a way round that, Niall.  If you open a new FF window, and type about:config in the address bar, when you hit Enter, you should see a long page of configuration options.  Go to the bottom and look for:

ui.key.chromeAccess
ui.key.contentAccess

Right click each one, select Modify and swap the integers round, so chromeAccess becomes 5 and contentAccess becomes 4.  Close the window, and Alt+S should then work to send messages on forums. 

[Rik]

How on earth did you find that one out, Simon?

[madasahatter]

Look slike Simon has way too much time on his hands 

[Simon]

It annoyed me too! 

[Sebby]

Thanks so much, Simon. This has always irritated me! I will give you a karma when back on my PC!

[Sebby]

Okay, all done.

[Simon]

Thanks, Seb, glad to help!   

[Niall]

Yay! Ta for that. That's been irritating me for ages. The last time I looked into it, there wasn't a work around.

[bob_s]

I use firefox, but I think my observation skills are lacking.  I never noticed the shortcut message.

I hope I am not missing any other tricks out there

[Sebby]

It's not something that's explicitly mentioned, Bob. Alt+S is just a shortcut to submit a form, but you need to adjust the settings to do so in Firefox.

[Rik]

I use firefox, but I think my observation skills are lacking.  I never noticed the shortcut message.

You won't see the message if you use the QR box, Bob, but on a normal reply, it's shown just above the buttons, see below.

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[Simon]

It does still work with the QR box though. 

[Lance]

A massive bump, but a worthwhile one I feel given the number of users who might have swapped from IE to firefox in recent years.

I've just used this again on FireFox 4 on my work laptop as it was annoying me not being able to use the shortcut! Firefox hadn't previously been installed on the machine.

[Rik]

A bump?? Are you using a wrecking ball?

[Lance]

Nope, just the search function 

[Rik]

 

[Simon]

I thought I'd travelled in time - I had hair when I started this thread! 

[Rik]

I had a waist!

[Simon]

I've still got one!

[Rik]

Ah, but is it convex or concave?

[Simon]

Definitely convex! 

[Rik]